Sea survivor flies home from Pacific island

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In this video image taken from AP video, Jose Salvador Alvarenga, center, a Salvadoran man who says he drifted in an open boat across the Pacific for more than a year, bids farewell to Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak, right, before flying home at an airport in Majuro, Marshall Islands Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. Alvarenga thanked people for taking care of him after he washed ashore in the island nation late last month and said he was "doing very well" before his departure. (AP Photo/AP Video)